you have been educated in an era of instant information. you've been tempered by some very difficult times. around the globe. and as i travel what i have seen of young people like you, around the world, show me these curr t currents inspire to me a realism but also an opportunistic idealism. a generation keenly aware of the world as it is, but eager to forge the world as it should be. and when it comes to the future we share that feels me with hope. young people fill me with hope. here in northern ireland, this generation has known even more rapid change than many young people have seen around the world. and while you have unique challenges of your own, you also have unique reasons to be hopeful, for you are the first generation on this land to inherit more than just the hardened attitudes and the bitter prejudices of the past, you're an inheritor of a just hard-earned peace. you live in a modern northern ireland. of course the recessions that spread through every country in recent years, has inflicted hardships here. but day-to-day, life i